We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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